This background paper describes five different tools that can be used for the assessment of tax incentives by … framework for assessment. Evaluations of the various costs and benefits of tax incentives are vital for informed decision making … light on the implications of tax parameters - including targeted tax incentives - on investment returns and help understand …

This note aims to help teams implementing interventions to employ firm productivity measures in their projects. It does … so by providing guidance on: (a) measuring firm productivity, (b) strengthening theories of change as they relate to firm … productivity, and (c) attributing productivity changes to projects. The note begins by first introducing the various productivity …

. Later reforms and the devaluation of 1994 improved performance through allowing more market incentives to play a role. In … to farmer incentives, measuring the incidence of government policy on producers and consumers each year in Cameroon from … agriculture's role in the economy. A summary of the main agricultural policy incentives, interventions and reforms is then …

This handbook has been developed to provide instruction on the design and implementation of incentives for resource-efficiency … to be applicable to most, if not all, resource-efficiency issues and incentives. However, it has a particular focus on … purposes. The target audience is World Bank staff and stakeholders who are supporting the implementation of a resource-efficiency …

than 20 million businesses. It finds that Mexico's disappointing aggregate productivity masks large differences in … productivity levels and growth across locations, sectors, and firms. A geographic productivity divide runs between the North … that have caught up to the Mexican productivity frontier, including in the South, while others have failed to grow at all …

) increasing focus on closing the efficiency gap - beyond mere factor accumulation; (ii) eliminating distortions that cause … misallocation of resources will also improve the incentives to innovate; (iii) identifying the main country-specific constraints to …

2014, depending on the proxy for productivity, it is undervalued from about 15 percent to 18 percent. The analysis suggests …

male counterparts. The agricultural productivity of female plot managers is on average twenty six percent lower than that … of male plot managers. Having young children is associated with lower productivity for women but not for men. With the … as their productivity …